Initial Code Contribution

During the six months prior to the creation of the Eclipse BIRT project, Actuate was actively researching and developing capabilities that correspond to the initial BIRT projects. This involved researching the requirements, developing design for the BIRT XML Report Design, and development of initial code. Actuate seeded the BIRT project by donating the work from this research and development. Specifically:

Report Execution and Rending Engine Component - A component that takes a report design file as input and generates various report output format such as HTML, PDF, and PostScript for printing. Initial design work, implementation, and unit tests were contributed.

Innovent and Actuate have over 10 years of experience each in the business intelligence market. The initial contribution for the BIRT project involved a significant number of experienced developers in this field and, going forward, the project is working with the Eclipse community to build on this initial code to deliver market leading reporting functionality to the open source Eclipse ecosystem.

In addition to the Actuate research and development work, Actuate is working with other Eclipse members to leverage existing code in other areas.